Health Data Breach Tracker/IL

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Walgreen Co.

1,915 individuals · submitted October 1, 2024

About this report

Walgreen Company, the covered entity (CE) reported that a workforce member allowed two unauthorized individuals to access the protected health information (PHI) of 1,915 individuals. The PHI involved included demographic and clinical information. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media. In response to the breach and OCR’s investigation, the CE revised its policies and procedures, implemented additional technical safeguards, sanctioned the workforce member and retrained its workforce.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Walgreen Co.
State
IL
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
1,915
Submission date
October 1, 2024
Breach type
Unauthorized Access/Disclosure
Location of information
Laptop
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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